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Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Osama bin Laden was a good Man

"God knows it did not cross our minds to attack the Towers, but after the situation became unbearable—and we witnessed
the injustice and tyranny of the American-Israeli alliance against our people
in Palestine and Lebanon—I thought about it. And the events that affected
me directly were that of 1982 and the events that
followed—when America allowed the Israelis to invade Lebanon, helped by the U.S. Sixth Fleet. As I watched the destroyed towers
in Lebanon, it occurred to me punish the unjust the same way: to
destroy towers in America so it could taste some of what we are tasting and to
stop killing our children and women."

—
Osama bin Laden, 2004

"Against them make
ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of war, to
strike terror into (the hearts of) the enemies of Allah and your enemies, and
others besides whomyou may not know but whom Allah doth know."– The Koran

Are
you insane? Come on! Be serious and realistic! Why on earth would you say Osama
bin Laden was a good man? Perhaps you never heard he was He was the founder of al-Qaeda, the jihadist
organization that claimed responsibility for the September 11 attacks on the United States,
along with numerous other mass-casualty attacks against civilian
and military targets.[5][6][7]
The attacks involved the hijacking of four commercial passenger aircraft[129]
and flying them into the World Trade Center in New York City, New York
and The
Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, destroying the former, and
severely damaging the latter.[130]
It resulted in the deaths of 2,973 people(1)

I
recalled vividly how the world reacted at the death of the adjudged top
terrorist in the world. Everyone was happy that the man who had been
perpertrating so many atrocities has been finally hunted down. Television
broadcast were on high, he became the talk on peoples lips, radio programs were
very elated because they had a subject matter to deliberate on. Calls went up! “have you heard? Osama is dead!” The
death of Osama bin Laden was one of the most widespread news that ever
occurred.

But
why did I insist that this man, whose dominant zeal was to kill is good? Well the
answer is not far fetched. You friends everything in this world begins with a
small, minute, abstract force called IDEA! For the Christians we can concur to
that fact. In the account of creation of the universe, we realized that the
whole world was framed by God’s idea. He taught about what could be and then
say ‘Let there be’ and as we saw ‘there was’. In the Greek book called Hebrews
it was chronicled that ‘…..the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that
the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible’(2)

Ideas
are powerful! One idea can change humanity; one idea can change the world. Any
idea when accepted by the masses can live till eternity even when the person,
the source of it has gone into oblivion. Like the truism goes ‘Ideas always
outlive men’. But the term ‘change’ is relative. Change can be good or bad.
Some changes are transformational while some are overtly upheavals!

Did you see that? What actually struck me
most when I first read this was that Osama Bin Laden was involved in ‘Charitable
works’ he was a source of help to the helpless. He had a heart of love! But
what actually went wrong? Did you want to know? The dark side of Osama Bin Laden originated when he conceived a wrong
idea! He suddenly along the way
imbued himself with a false belief system, a faulty and questionable ideology. According
to same Wikipedia, it shows that “the former CIA
analyst Michael Scheuer, who led the CIA's
hunt for Osama bin Laden, the al-Qaeda leader was motivated by a belief that U.S. foreign policy has oppressed,
killed, or otherwise harmed Muslims in the Middle East,[48] condensed in the
phrase "They hate us for what we do, not who we are." Bin Laden also
said only the restoration of Sharia
law would "set things right" in the Muslim world, and that
alternatives such as "pan-Arabism,
socialism, communism, democracy" must be opposed.[49Bin
Laden's ideology included the idea that civilians, including women and
children, are legitimate targets of jihad.[54][55]

Bin Laden's overall strategy against much
larger enemies such as the Soviet
Union and United States was to lure them into a long war of attrition in
Muslim countries, attracting large numbers of jihadists who would never
surrender. He believed this would lead to economic collapse of the enemy
nation.[72] Al-Qaeda
manuals clearly outline this strategy. In a 2004 tape broadcast by al-Jazeera, bin Laden spoke of
"bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy".[73](4)

This was the origin of Osama’s
misbehavior. He allowed his mind to imbibe a false concept. He had a bad idea.
Osama in himself was a good man, but he only had a bad idea. The problem with
the US is that they had failed to recognize that:

*Ideas outlive
men (even if they know what about the next one)

*Ideas cannot be
destroyed by arms and ammunition

*You can shoot a
man but you cannot shoot his idea

*The only way you
can defeat a bad idea is to replace it with a good one

-Credit to Dr. Myles Monroe

The
fact that a man had a bad idea does not make him utterly bad, he only had an
idea that was bad. He is good but his idea, his belief, his ideology is bad.
But the moment his faulty idea is replaced with a good one, the moment he is
made to see that his idea is wrong he would drop such idea and embrace the one
he has been convinced of. You can only fight or hold on to what you are
convinced of. In the holy book, an account was given of a Jew in Tarsus named
Saul.

Saul
was an elite, a teacher of the Law. He was a man of letters and he schooled under
the greatest teacher in the Jewish religion-under a man called Gamaliel.
Despite his level of his education, Saul had a wrong idea, a wrong conception
about the Law. He opposed the followers of the young rabbi called Jesus who has
been pre destined to bring a new message to the people.

The
message according to him was ‘the good new’. Because of his wrong base of his
idea, he hunted these men. He arrested anyone who dares to preach in the name
of Jesus Christ. He threw them in jail. He did all in his power to thwart the
expansion of his church. He became so zealous that he requested for a permit to
go to Damascus to destroy all the followers of this young rabbi. But on his way
what happened? I believed you know the rest of the story. He had an encounter
that fine tuned his misconception. God himself made him understand that
what he was fighting for was on a wrong base. He open his mind and replaced it
with a good idea; that Jesus indeed the Way, the Truth, and the Life.

This
same man who once persecuted the church later became one of the greatest masterminds
of the Lord Jesus Christ. He fought for the truth with all the energy in the
deep recess of his mind. He was the one who confessed:

“Woo is me if I
preached not the good new”

“For I am not
ashamed of the good news”

“All I
ever want is to know Christ and to experience his power of his resurrection”

“Imitate me, just
as I also imitate Christ”

-Apostle Paul

Whoa!
This is interesting! Saul who name later became Paul became one of the greatest
followers of Jesus Christ, he single handedly wrote a dozen of the letters that
was contained in the Holy book! Osama was a good man but he had a bad idea.